Voter Participation

In the 2016 general election, voters submitted nearly 33.5 million mail ballots, but more than 400,000 (1.2% of the total) weren’t counted.

Votes cast on Election Day have grown steadily less significant over the past several election cycles as a share of total votes cast.

Comparing U.S. voter turnout to other countries' depends very much on which country you’re looking at and which measuring stick you use.

Ahead of the 2020 U.S. election, here’s a look at how elections are run in the United States and other countries around the world.

Data tables from interviews we conducted with verified voters after the 2016 and 2018 elections may help answer some election 2020 questions.

Latino voters are less likely than all U.S. voters to say they are extremely motivated to vote in the upcoming presidential election.

We developed this explainer to help people understand how, and why, the complex U.S. electoral process is even more so this time around.

More Floridians have registered to vote as Republicans than Democrats since the 2016 presidential elections.

Mail-in ballots accounted for just over half of this year’s primary votes cast in the 37 states (plus D.C.) for which data is available.

Many Americans are heading into the 2020 election with a sense of uncertainty that goes beyond their traditional concerns over who will win.